Sluzigers (e.a.) » Douwe Vos (1855-1952)

Day of marriage May 7, 1908

• The temperature on May 7, 1908 was between 5.9 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
  • April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
  • May 10 » Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
  • June 27 » A group of Vietnamese tirailleurs conducts a failed attempt to poison the entire French army's garrison in the Hanoi Citadel with the aim to make way for Hoàng Hoa Thám's rebel army to capture Hanoi.
  • July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
  • September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.

Day of death January 28, 1952

• The temperature on January 28, 1952 was between -6.3 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -2.8 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • March 10 » Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
  • March 15 » In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870mm (73inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).
  • March 20 » The US Senate ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan.
  • September 1 » The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
  • September 12 » Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
  • November 14 » The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1947 » Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan-French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1875)
• 1948 » Hans Aumeier, German SS officer (b. 1906)
• 1949 » Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
• 1950 » Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1883)
• 1953 » James Scullin, Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
• 1953 » Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher and poet (b. 1879)